Gig-saddle.



F. P. AMES. GIG SADDLE. APPLIOATION'PILBD JUNB'IB, 1912.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

WITNESSES: Mll/E/VTUI? Ma. 62 4 FEM/776a B m a? 77% A TTOR/VEY THE NokR/s PETERS c0 PHOTOJJIHQ. WASHINGTON, o

'5 State of Missouri, have invented certainnew in order to obviate sharp edges at the top of 115 Myiinvention relates zto a seat for sadhook, in the ordinary manner, and also by 2o ened a ter continueduse. In accomplishing "H'a ngt Clesorilfled n W a ,-Figure I is a perspective view of a saddle a crupper loo In the drawings I show the saddle body tion having a' square aperture therein a 40 being illustrated in detail, as the saddle per square shank projected through the square l5 cept that it is provided with lateral ears 7, inforcilig member firmly together.

through which the fastening bolts 9 are pro- I Witnesses: jected. The bolts 9, after pa'ssingthroug'h ARTHUR W. CArs, the strap ears, extend through the pads, V LE'rA E. CoA'rsL' T OF ICE.

COMPANY,' on Kansas our, MIssotI-RI, A CORPORATION or MISSOURI.-

GIG-SADDIlEz:

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T aZl 'm it ma g gon'cj'n: v p through thesaddle housing and body and Be it known that 'LFREDERIGK Arms, through nuts 10, which latter are located bea citizen of the United-States, residing at tween'the saddle straps et tflthe heads of Kansas City, in the county ofJacksonand. the bolts being preferably rounded, as shown,

a -and useful Improvements in Gig-Saddles3 the saddle, and 'being provided with sockets and Ida declarethe following to be ailfull, 11 for receiving the points of a wrench,

clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, j whereby the bolts are tightened.- In the cen suchas will enable othersskilled in the art ter of the seat is an aperture 12 for receiving 60,

1 0 tolwhich it appertains to make and use? the the hook -"shankl3,*w-hich latter carries a same, reference being bad to the accom ,anynut 14 ontheg funderside'l of the pad to fasten -ing drawings, and to the letters and gures' thehooklj n pla'cet'and assist in connecting of. reference markedethereon, which form' a the other parts ofthe saddle. A seat of this part ofthis specification; description is'fastened to the saddle by the dles or coach pads, and has for its principal the end bolts g9, thereby insuring a much object to provide a seat of this character.firmerattachment of the seat, so that the T which may be securelyiastened to the sad-' usualjloosemngiof the seat from the saddle, dle or ad, so that it iwill ,notlbecome' 'loos isobv'ia'ted'. r

this object I have provided the improvedde-j I Claim as new therein, and desire to secure tails of structure hereinafterdescribed and by Letters Patentis illustrated in the accompanying drawings, 1. The combination with a reinforced, h i 4 I arched saddle, of a seat comprising a body, j integral with the body, latequipped with a seat constructed according orally extendlng' reinforcing ears'fintegral tomy invention. ,FigzII isa longitudinal with. the body and secured near the outer section of the seat and the central portion of ends to the reinforced saddle, and a rein thesaddle. Fig. III isa detail view of the hook "having a square shank projected 30 seat. through and adapted to, secure the central Referring more in detail to the parts portionof said bodyand saddle. '1 designates the saddle housing, 2 the pad, The combination with an'arched saddle and 3 a jockey, which'maybe of ordinary phavinga metal reinforcing member, of a a construction. v stamp-ed metal seat comprising a' body por- 8 5 as comprising spaced metal straps H, crupper loop integralowith the bodyfl atwhich are connected atthecenter by a loop erally extending reinforcing ears integral 5, and elsewhere throughout. the saddle by. with,the bodyand secured to the saddle and any suitable means, the latter, however, not reinforcing member, a rein hook haying a .96 forms no part of my present invention. aperture in the body and through the saddle, I ,Mounted on the archof the saddle and, a threaded extension on said square shank, 1 directly overlying the jockey is a seat 6, and a nut .on said extension for drawing the which is of the ordinary construction, ex? central portion of said'seat, saddle and rewhich hang over the sides of and are curved In testimony whereof I a'fliXmy signature 7 to conform to the curveofthe pad, the ends in presence of two witnesses; of the ears being pr FREDERICK P. AMES.

ovided with apertures '8,

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